Manifold

pressure, which related to an expression of emotion through physical movement (Palacio-Quintin & Zadel, 2008); as well as a host of performing artists who use biosignals more as entertainment, such as Lucky Dragons, The Heart Chamber Orchrestra, and Manifold Motion (Paalasmaa, Murphy, & Holmqvist, 2012). The piece that personally called my attention towards this topic was Daniel Dehaan’s piece, “Intelligence in the Human Machine,” premiered in 2014 with Chicago Symphony cellist Katinka Kleijin,…

Structural Design Methods The design methods of the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner are quite different. The Airbus A380 has a GP 7200 engine with four turbo fan layout whereas the Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine with a twin turbo layout. The Airbus has a total length of 72.72 meters and the Boeing has a length of 56.7 meters. The internal cabin width of the Airbus is 6.54 meters and the Boeing is 5.5 meters. The wingspan of the Airbus is 79.75 meters and the…

“Happiness can only exist in acceptance,” as quoted by George Orwell. Since the dawn of civilization, individuals have become dedicated to behaving in a manner that will result in their acceptance into society. However, a few brave individuals dare to diverge from the path established by society’s standards and thus are labeled “outsiders”. Since early civilization, there have always been secrets. Some secrets are meant to prevent the acquiring of unnecessary knowledge, while others serve simply…

The book “Understanding Spiritual Warfare: Four Views” provides academic views of four different perspectives and with positive engagements of contributors on the topic of spiritual warfare. This book provides me with a selection of different perspectives based on different contexts and understandings to deal with spiritual warfare. After reading the book I find myself close to the view as outlined in the ground-level deliverance model by Boyd. Wink sees spiritual warfare manifests itself in…

Exploring the unhappy teacher Introduction There is a saying, “give me a fish and I eat for a day, teach me to fish and I eat for a life time”. This must be a philosophy of a good teacher. Teaching is one of the oldest and noblest services to the society in any culture. It is a process to prepare the next generation of skilled professionals and workers like engineers, doctors, politician, educators, policemen and good citizens. Therefore, teaching is considered as an instrument to touch lives.…

no easy task and requires many sleepless nights with many new and improving ideas, most of them rather being impromptu ones. The world is being pretty generous with start-ups these days since the number of entrepreneurial entries have increased manifold in the recent times and these entries have proven to be very successful in taming the market. Whatsapp created a huge new market across the globe and was sold for a whopping $19 billion to Facebook. Such start-ups are creating a rave in the…

1975, then continue with the Brent Delta, Brent Charlie and steel-jacketed Brent Alpha. Besides that, the fifth floating installation, Brent Spar, applied as a tanker loading buoy and storage. The platform still produces oil until 2004 through a manifold. The Brent spar became the best of the Brent installation in the oil industry. In 1991, the service is already removed out. Moreover, the field also included a remote flare called Brent Flare. The function of this Brent Flare is to flare off…

November 14, 2009, I recline on a diminutive, unyielding, frosty cot in the nucleus of the Hindu Kush Mountains, Afghanistan. Sprouting to explosions with AK-47 bullets penetrating the scanty plywood wall adjacent to my sleeping area. Swiftly, I grappled my sweat-stained digital Interceptor Body Armor (IBA), Advanced Combat Helmet (ACH), and M-4 Carbine, arranging a race to a fighting position. Flinging my ½ in thick wooden door open, I beheld a spectacle from a war film I’d seen as a child.…

A million men all consumed with visions of blue yards a year; trekking through the grass fields of Europe, the mine covered dunes of the Middle east, and escaping the grasping death-embrace of corrupt leaders in Africa. All delusional men injected with propaganda that there is more waiting past the Atlantic. The war has progressed humanity immensely, rather than a hundred years of peace; with destruction comes reformation in an institutionalized and public level . Methods of globalization was…

The complexities are manifold as the drama is still being played out in the multilayered human contexts leading to both “clashes of civilization and the homogenization of civilizations . . . environmental disasters and amazing environmental rescues . . . the triumph of liberal…